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...There's no fee to enter a story (1500 stories have been submitted so far), but in return each entrant must review at least five other stories to have his or her own considered. "We're getting between 15 and 20 reviews on our site per story, from users who love to review," Petty said. The prize-winning stories receive far more reviews than that, and the number of positive reviews decides each story's ranking. In January, the best-reviewed story of 2008 will claim the $250,000 jackpot...
...Diminishing Returns Your history item on Ford's model T indicated that when it was first introduced in 1908 its fuel efficiency was 13-21 miles per gallon [Oct. 6]. According to the website of the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, in 2006 the average U.S. passenger car got 22.4 miles to the gallon. It seems we haven't got very far in 100 years. Jeff DeVito, Bound Brook, New Jersey...
Comcast got the message. The company is paying a 25-per-share dividend, buying back $7 billion in stock, paring capital expenditures and canceling a scheme to keep paying Ralph Roberts after he dies. Greenberg now says Comcast is coming around, "The company is doing what shareholders want in a very smart...
Patients with foreign passports accounted for the vast majority of those treated at United Family Hospital in Beijing. But today wealthy and upper-middle-class Chinese make up 40% of patients across United Family Hospital locations. In a one-child-per-family country, private maternity care is one of the most sought-after services, says Lipson. "Once they have their baby in our hospital, they're not going anywhere else with that precious child for pediatric health care," she says...
...with their reckless financial behavior.” According to pamphlets distributed by RAN at the protest, Bank of America’s recent claims of new environmental initiatives are at odds with their track record. RAN reports that the company commits less that 0.2 percent of its assets per year to environmental sustainability, while spending nearly 100 times as much money on “dirty energy.” “Bank of America is guilty of being one of the biggest funders of the coal industry,” said Alysha Suley, a representative from Rising...